How to Make a Bitch Give Up Beef

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This week, we feature a satirical piece by poet Meena Kandasamy and artist Samit Chatterjee from The Obliterary Journal, an anthology of comics and artwork centered around the theme of meat-eating, published by Blaft Publications in Chennai, India. In 2012, lower casteDalit student organizations at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, organized a beef-eating festival to combat what they viewed as “food facism” in hostels. Beef has traditionally been part of the Dalit diet, and 1,500 people were fed beef biriyani as part of the festival. Right wing Hindu organizations opposed the festival on grounds that eating beef goes against Hindu belief. Violence erupted when members of the Hindu group Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) marched towards the festival ground and were stopped by police.

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I’m disappointed. You forgot Plan 13 to 15. You cal in the Jain Munis and plan a hunger strike outside the Beef Biryani eating place.
You call in TWO Munis to do the same.
You call in THREE Jain Munis.
You can keep on adding PETA an others after this to keep it going.